Policemen attached to the special Anti-Robbery squad (SARS) Ikeja ara investigating an alleged theft of #8 million from vice President yemi osinbajo's bank account. It was gathered that two undergraduate students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe university Awka identified as Ebuka orumba, a final year 500 level student of Environmental science and Patrick Nwafor, a final year computer engineering student allegedly hacked into the account of Simmons Cooper partner, a law firm said to belong to vice President osinbajo and allegedly stole eight million Nair's from it.
National mirror reports that the students used fraudulent means to hack into the email of the Account manager of the Vp's law firm, one Mr.tunde irukers and they allegedly sent a mail to UBA PLC branch to one Obuba Fidel's on July 2nd instructing the bank to transfer eight million naira from Simmons Cooper Bank account to three different bank accounts they opened for the faud.
It was further gathered that the undergraduates allegedly connived with a tricycle rider one Artor kalu to open a bank account with zenith bank account number 2086943174 where three million naira was transferred to with the false name engineer asukwo okoro.
The remaining amounts were said to have been transferred to two other unnamed bank accounts.
Luck however ran out on them when their gang member Mr kalu went to the zenith bank account at mushin to withdraw the 3 million naira but was nabbed by detectives from SARS following a tip off from the bank.
The police subsequently arrested kalu and following his statement, the police arrested orumba but nwafor escaped.
The police had since charged orumba and kalu to court on a 5 count charge on conspiracy, stealing and fraud while efforts is on to arrest nwafor whom the others claimed to be the mastermind of the fraud.
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